After almost three decades in retail selling homewares, antiques and flowers, Sue Clohesy says she's never short of inspiration and props for updating and rearranging her home. Sue and her electrician husband, John, bought their 1930s weatherboard cottage on five acres (two hectares) at Irymple, on the outskirts of the fruit-growing city of Mildura on the Victorian side of the Murray River, in 1989.
Readers with long memories may recall that Australian Country has visited the Clohesys several times during the past. The first time was in 1997, when their youngest son, Conor, was just a baby. He now works in retail administration in Melbourne, while daughter, Siobhan, is a Pilates instructor, also in Melbourne, and Rhiannon is a graphic designer in Adelaide, where she runs her own company making…
